Cabinet



H. R. CORNELISON.

CABINET.

APPLICATION nuzn MAY11.1919.

PatehtedSept 20,1921.

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CABINET.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 20, 1921.

Application filed Kay 17, 1919. Serial No. 297,872.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HELEN ROBINSON Gon- NELISON, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cabinets more especially designed for a nursery.

The primary object of this invention is to produce a cabinet of the character indicated which not only has drawers for holding or receivin articles, such, for instance, as clothing, b ding, toys, and all the paraphernalia of aninfant, but is provided with seats for a crib and constructed and contoured to facilitate the application and removal of the crib. 1

Another object is to construct said cabinet in such a manner that an uncovered cribreceiving recess is formed between two drawer-containing sections and that the cabinet is more especially useful in apartments where room or space has to be economically utilized.

Another object is to form said recess without materially enhancing the cost of the cabinet, and to render the bottom of said recess suitable for use-as a seat for one or two persons when the crib is removed from the cabinet- Another object is to render the cabinet attractive in appearance and sanitary.

With these objects in view, and to attain any other object hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of construction, and combinations and relative arrangements of parts, hereinafter described in this specification, pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cabinet embodying my invention and shows a crib arranged within the hereinbefore mentioned recess. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section taken alon the line 2-2, Fig. 1, with the crib remove Fig. 3

is a vertical section taken along the line 3-3,

Fig. 2.

he cabinet. illustrated in said drawings comprises two laterally spaced drawer-containing end sections 5 each of which preferably comprises a tier of drawers 6. referably the sections 5 are arranged far enough apart to. accommodate the provision of a wide drawer 7 between the lower end portions of said sections and to form an uncovered recess 8 over said drawer and between said sections. The recess 8 is widest between the upper end portions of the sections 5 and narrower at its lower end where said recess has a substantially horizontal bottom 9 which is arranged over and near the drawer 7 and centrally between said sections '5. The bottom 9 is utilizable as a seat for one or two persons, as will hereinafter appear. The recess is open at the front of the cabinet. The side walls ofthe upper end portion of said recess are shown formed by the sections 5, and the laterally facing side walls 10' of the remainder and main portion of said recess diverge upwardly. (See Fig. 1.)

At the upper end of each of said u wardly diverging-walls 10 is formed a su stantially horizontal seat 12 for a crib 13 shown arranged within said recess in Fig. 1, and said seat forms the top and upper extremity of said wall. Preferably the two seats 12 of the cabinet are arranged substantially in the same horizontal plane and farther from the bottom 9 of the recess 8 than but below, the upper ends of the sec- Each seat 12 is shown as extending drawer-containing section 5 The crib 13 is provided at from, tions 5. to the adjacent of the cabinet.

the top with arms or projecting members 1% which are preferably ri id with the body of the crib, as shown in ig. 1, and arranged wholly above the walls 10 and rest on and are removable from the seats 12. The relative arrangement of the parts is preferably such that the crib, when it is in position within the recess 8, as shown in Flg. 1, is spaced, as at 15, from the upwardly divergin walls 10 and spaced, as at 16, from the bottom 9, for the purpose of ventilating the crib. The arms or members 14 of the crib extend substantially to the drawer-containing sections 5 and coiiperate with said sections in forming stops for preventing such endwise movement of the crib as would materially reduce the capacity of the one or the other of the ventilatingmspaoes 15.

Below each seat 12, tween the recess 8 and the drawer-containing section 5 ad'acent said seat, is formed a closet 17, (see ig. 3) and said recess has its side wall which is adjacent said section 5 largely formed by a door 18 which is hinged at its lower end, as at 19, to the bottom 9 and affords access to said closet when the crib has been removed from said recess. It will also be observed thatsaidbottom 9, when the crib is out of the recess 8, forms a seat large enough for seating one or two persons, and each of the upwardly-diverging walls 10 of said recess forms a rest for a cushion not shown.

What I claim is- I A cabinet comprising two laterally spaced and sections and being contoured between said sections to form an uncovered recess having a seat-forming bottom and upwardly diverging side walls, and a crib arranged in said recess and endwise between said 'end sections and having projecting members arranged at opposite ends respectively of the crib, the aforesaid walls terminating at their upper extremities in seats which are substantially in the same horizontal plane and form the tops of said walls, the crib havin arms arranged wholly above said walls an resting on and removable from said seats, and said crib and its said arms being arranged wholly between the aforesaid end sect ons of the cabinet.

In testimony whereof, I sign the foregoing specification, in the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses HELEN ROBINSON CORNELISON.

BASIL F. J OHNSON,

HILDA Boon. 

